Monday, February 09, 2015

I'm heading to San Jose. First Nations there are the Ohlone/Costanoan people. (Many thanks to Melissa Nelson of SFU for this information :) The video above and image below are sourced through their websites and resources.

I'm speaking at the inaugural Citizen Science Conference on Indigenous Peoples and Citizen Science. My theme is to unpack the implications of 'citizenship' on CitSci with the intent to illuminate the struggle of Indigenous Peoples worldwide to be accepted as First Citizens on their own lands. Good science can only come out of good (by which I mean inclusive, ethical) politics...

Wednesday, February 04, 2015

In seasonally adjusted terms, unemployment was 5.7% in the December 2014 quarter. That's up 0.3 percentage points from the September 2014 quarter. 8,000 more people being unemployed over the quarter. Merry fricken Xmas, right?

For Maori, unemployment was down 0.2 to 12%, still shit and the drop is within the margin of error.